Symposia submissions for #IMRF2026 in Genoa are now open! 🎉 Submit your proposal by 7 February 2026 via the conference website: imrf2026.sciencesconf.org We look forward to receiving your contributions!!

First half of the story 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals www.eneuro.org/content/earl... by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social et al.

#eNeuro | Korczyk, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, and Szwed found brain activity linked to reading expertise may be repurposed in blind people https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the 24th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2026)! 📍 Genova, Italy 🗓️ June 24–27, 2026 More details coming soon — stay tuned! We can’t wait to see you in Genova! 🇮🇹

🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #haptics

Decoding semantic sound categories in early visual cortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... "semantic and categorical sound information is represented in early visual cortex, potentially used to predict visual input"; #neuroscience

It's a wrap! We are happy to bring IMRF 2025 to a close, but also sad to say goodbye to so many lovely, smart people! (or at least "until next year").

What a fantastic time at IMRF! 🎉 Huge thanks to the brilliant speakers for making our symposium on “Blindness as a Window into Brain Organisation” a big success! Big thanks to the organisers and the scientific community for this stellar event! Great to see so many friends and colleagues! #IMRF2025

Symposia 3 and 4: what blindness reveals about brain organisation (Raczy, Stroh) and metacognition in mutlisensory decision-making (Noppeney) are on now. Such interesting topics and talks! 🤩 #IMRF2025

Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

Thrilled to be attending the #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social in beautiful Durham this week! I'll be presenting in Symposium 3 on Wednesday at 11:00, kindly organized by @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and @lenastroh.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions ahead! 🧠

IMRF folks, we are ready for you! We cannot wait to see you all tomorrow for the opening (1.30pm) or the workshops (9am). Safe travels & looking forward to catching up tomorrow Your organising team imrf2025.sciencesconf.org

Got any job openings/PhD positions in your #multisensory research labs? Let us know by tagging us - we are happy to share it with the community

New to IMRF? Or just not sure what to do on the evening before the conference? 🙌 Come down to the *Head of Steam* on Monday evening, 14th July, at 8 pm to meet new and old friends! Look out for people wearing IMRF t-shirts! 👕 maps.app.goo.gl/T6hcD9t5JtaU...

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There is still ~2 weeks time to sign up for one of our exciting pre-conference methods workshops: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n

I'm particularly happy to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions and category selectivity. The idea:Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning.

If you use PsychoPy we would be very grateful for 5-15 mins of your time to complete this survey 🙏🏼

🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!

Happy Friday Multisensory pals, the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... ✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️

New paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Phonological representations of auditory & visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... "studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but their location and nature remain unclear" so an fMRI study

Very much looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues and to sharing some great ideas! 🤩🧠

Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠

Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work

Check out Nicolas Weiler’s article for Stanford Neurosciences on how our work is bridging nature and nurture!

After 16 hours on the Stockholm-Berlin train, arrived just in time for #MindBrainBody! Excited to present our poster on "The influence of finger-extending exoskeletons on tactile and proprioceptive localization" during Poster Session D (16:10-16:55, D06).

Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @cemalkoba.bsky.social @olicolli.bsky.social @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social @lenastroh.bsky.social et al.; more information in the thread bsky.app/profile/lena... #neuroscience #blindness

📢📢 Check out our new preprint on the functional connectome in congenitally blind individuals 🧠⬇️⬇️

Preprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... co-led by @cemalkoba.bsky.social and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget, @olicolli.bsky.social, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed

Symposium Announcement! 🧠✨ @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium for the @imrf.bsky.social, focusing on neuroplasticity in blindness. We’ve lined up some fantastic speakers and still have one slot available! If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!

In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈

The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @olivercontier.bsky.social w/ Chris Baker now out in Nature Human Behaviour provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abstract Art **Hey, get a signed print of one of my comics: bit.ly/mind-print

Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mirror-invariant object recognition is not exclusively visual: check out our new study in blind and blindfolded sighted individuals just published in #SciReports with Maks Korczyk and Marcin Szwed! 🥳 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵below ⬇️

Visual experience contributes to separation of face and language responses in the ventral stream www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @nancykanwisher.bsky.social et al.; comparing vOTC (ventral occipitotemporal cortex) function across sighted and congenitally blind adults; #neuroscience

Retinotopic biases in contextual feedback signals to V1 for object and scene processing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @larsmuckli.bsky.social et al. #neuroscience

Top-down and emotional attention in blind and sighted individuals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Our study highlights the superiority of auditory processing capabilities in blind individuals."

Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in #aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @zhanminye.bsky.social @alfredospagna.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social et al.; #neuroscience

Our new study on the emergence of the visual category-selectivity of the VOTC after restoring sight in congenitally blind humans - is now out as a preprint🎉🎉 Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️